Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
HORRORS OF HYDROPHOBIA.
Henry Younglove Expires at Detroit After
Period of Terrible Suffering.

henry GOunSlOVo Expires al OeIrOlC al CSr
Period of Terrible Suffering.
Detroit (NIich.) Special to Chicago Times.
Henry Younglove, Detroiter, aged
sixty, died of hydrophobis last night IN
der peculiarly horrifying circumstances.
Two months ago he was bitten by rat
terrier six months old. 1t was a very
little bite. The skin was scarcely broken,
only one tooth reaching the flesh. The
bite soon healed; but the neighbOrs pre-
pared some food with glass in it which
the dog ate and died. Younglove often
expressed fear that the bite would result
seriously; but he felt no trouble until
last Tuesday, when he began to feel q
GOODNESS, which developed Into strong
chill. At O'Clock Yesterday morning
Mr.. Younglove was seized with a vio-
lent paroxysm, accompanied by
great agitation end an aver
sion to water, which re-
suited in marked increase CT the con-
vulsive action whenever the smallest
amount of water was brought near him.
This was accompanied by an almost total
disability to swallow. During the after
noon, however, the case lacked one symp-
tom characteristic of hydrophobia-the
patient showing inordinate thirst. This
fact led to a serious doubt as to whether
the case was in fact one Of hYdrophobia
or lyssophobia. At II O'Clock q. m. the
patient, during an interval of quiet, sug-
gested that while he could not swallow
water he might be able to take his medi-
cine in cold tea. The physicians sought
to act upon this suggestion when, at the
presentation of the first spoonful of the
LIQUID, Younglove
FELL INTO FEARFUL PAROXYSM,
The united strength of three persons be-
ing required to hold him while the tea
was forced down his throat few drops
at time. The common recourse in such
cases is chloroform. The physicians be-
gan the administration of this drug, and
had made little progress before Young
love became so violent as to almost de-
feat the best efforts of all the persons in
the house to subdue him until the process
was completed. In the meantime report
OF the extraordinary case had spread, and
not only was the house crowded with
neighbors drawn thither by curiosity, but
the yard and adjoining sidewalks were
occupied by hundreds OF loiterers.
This naturally led to the patients ex-
citement and made the treatment of his
| case matter of greater difficulty. AS
night drew on the lacking symptom in a
typical case-extreme thirst-eppeared,
and marked increase in the severity of
| the Commissions. The slightest current
of air or the admission of any but the
| dimmest light increased the severity Of
the attacks. At 9:15 Younglove was
seized with q CONFUSION more furious
and terrible than any which had preceded
it. 1t was impossible to keep him on a
bed, and he lay on the floor writhing in
awful agony, the utmost efforts of four
strong men being insufficient to restrain
him. He yelped, barked,
SNAPPED AT HIS ATTENDANTS
in the attempt to bite them, tore at them
with his nails and beat himself about the
floor with the strength of half g dozen
well men. When this CONFUSION had spent
its force he sank into q semi-comatose
condition, so remaining from about 10 I'M
til minute or so before 10:30 O'Clock.
Then he moaned as if about to pass into
another paroxysm, gasped twice or thrice
and died. His eyes were fixed with q look
Of indescribable horror, which death
itself could not extinguish. His mouth
was set wide open. His hands when
opened showed in the nailprints On their
palms how tightly they must have been
clenched in the death struggle. An autop-